John Marnell (he/him) is a researcher and PhD candidate at the African Centre for Migration and Society. His research uses creative methodologies (visual, narrative and embodied) to explore the everyday lives of LGBTQI+ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. John is passionate about working collaboratively with social justice movements and experimenting with different forms of participatory knowledge production. His most recent book, Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration, will be published by Wits University Press in mid 2021. John is co-convenor of the African LGBTIQ+ Migration Research Network (ALMN). He is currently putting together the first edited collection addressing LGBTQI+ migration on the African continent: Queer and Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Diaspora and Asylum (co-edited with B Camminga).